Matthew Singer

Updated for 2026: Weapons, director Zach Cregger’s story of children gone missing in suburbia, proved him as the next great, original voice in horror. If it wasn’t obvious before, after Amy Madigan’s Oscar win for her portrayal of the unforgettable Aunt Gladys, we knew we had a new classic on our hands. Everyone is scared of something. It might be something specific, like spiders or heights or clowns, or something less tangible, like death or failure. But deep down, even the most posturing tough guy harbours deep-seated fears. Perhaps that explains why horror has grown into one of the most popular of all film genres. Even if a movie doesn’t necessarily touch on the things that personally scare us the most, allowing ourselves to be scared at all helps us confront and ease the anxieties and fears that keep us paralysed.   Of course, horror hasn’t always been a moneymaker. Not long ago, it was mainly a niche interest, ignored by mass audiences and shrugged off by critics. The recent artistic and commercial success of diverse films from Get Out to Longlegs to Sinners to Weapons to Final Destination Bloodlines have brought retroactive respect to a genre once synonymous with schlock. So if you’ve spent too much of your film fandom dismissing horror, consider this your guide to everything you’ve missed. Here are the 100 greatest horror movies ever made. Quick picks: 📍 Best slasher: Halloween (1978)📍 Best ghost story: The Innocents (1961)📍 Best zombie movie: Dawn of the Dead (1978

Let the normies do their October horror marathons: for true fright fans, every season is spooky season, and anytime is the right time for a horror movie. Netflix has enough scary movies to fill your entire calendar. Unfortunately, there’s a difference between ‘horror’ and actually being horrifying, and not all of the streamer’s offerings are guaranteed to scare your pants off. If you don’t want to waste a night yawning when you should be screaming, we’ve pulled together this list of the best horror movies on Netflix. It’s a chilling mix of old reliables and modern classics, bloody blockbusters and indie shock-a-thons. All of them are sure to give you nightmares. Recommended: 💀 The best horror movies of all time🇳 The best movies streaming on Netflix💻 The best Netflix original series to binge

The prudes have inherited the movies. If you’ve followed the ongoing debate over sex scenes on social media over the last few years, then you’ll know that Gen Z has strong opinions on cinematic boning: they’re against it. The argument goes that sex scenes rarely add anything to the plot of a movie, nor develop characters. It’s a flawed viewpoint, but in fairness, given Hollywood’s general shift away from showing sexuality on screen, it’s entirely possible that younger folks have simply never seen a good sex scene.  Well, allow us to offer a counterpoint – 101 of them, to be exact. On this list of cinema’s greatest sex scenes, you’ll find multiple examples where a roll in the hay is meant to convey more than just mere titillation – it’s part of the story itself. In some cases, sex is a punchline. In others, it’s downright horrifying. Sometimes it’s supposed to make you uncomfortable. And sometimes, yes, it exists to be arousing. But there’s value in that, too. Written by Dave Calhoun, Joshua Rothkopf, Cath Clarke, David Ehrlich, Phil de Semlyen, Daniel Walber, Trevor Johnston, Andy Kryza, Daniel Walber and Matthew Singer Recommended: 🕯️ The steamiest erotic thrillers ever made🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time❤ The 100 best romantic films of all-time😬 The 50 most controversial movies ever made💪 The 100 best feminist films of all-time

It’s been over a decade since Netflix dropped its first original series, the political thriller House of Cards, and effectively changed streaming forever. At the time, it seemed like a major gamble. Since then, many more streamers have come along with their own shows and momentarily seized the zeitgeist, but the conversation always seems to return to the Big Tudum, whether through culture-dominating smashes like Stranger Things, Wednesday and Squid Game, critically adored limited series such as Adolescence and Baby Reindeer or emerging YA phenomena like One Piece.  Of course, while Netflix has churned out some of the most talked-about shows of the past decade, it’s also produced just as many clunkers. That can make finding the programming most worth bingeing a bit challenging. But we’ve made it easy for you. Below, you’ll find our picks for the best Netflix original series available to stream. Sure, you probably already know that you need to catch up on Bridgerton or The Crown. But there’s enough in the streamer’s vast collection that there are always some hidden gems worth investing your time in. Recommended: 🎥 The best movies on Netflix right now🔎 The best true crime documentaries on Netflix👽 The best sci-fi shows streaming on Netflix

The horror business is booming right now. Over the last few years, it’s become one of the movie industry’s most bankable genres, financially and creatively. Ryan Coogler has already made Oscar-nomination history with a vampire flick of all things, while the combination of Barbarian and Weapons has made director Zach Cregger one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices – and that’s to say nothing of the huge box-office success of franchise entries like The Conjuring: Last Rites, Final Destination Bloodlines and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.Only a few months into 2026, and the year in horror is already off to another good start, between 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate and Sam Raimi’s return-to-form, Send Help. Nothing on the docket for the rest of the year immediately screams ‘blockbuster,’ but that’s the great thing about horror: like a bump in the night, the hits often come from unexpected places. Here’s what has stood out like a bloody knife so far. 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🧟 The 100 greatest horror movies ever made

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t love Ryan Gosling? If so, that’s on them because the Canadian is currently one of the most amiable, ego-free superstars in the Hollywood firmament. Even right now, he’s probably out there goofing about with Elmo, winking at a The Notebook superfan on a red carpet or turning a shade of crimson while someone brandishes a Gosling tea towel at him in an interview. He may quail in the face of all this attention but he’s too damn likeable to let on. Leaving aside his semi-reluctant public persona and easy charm – honestly, we are – he’s also a don at piloting his career in all sorts of bold and interesting ways. Now in his mid-forties, that 20-year filmography is packed full of unexpected choices and performances. Taking in comedies, indie dramas, action flicks and at least one buddy cop masterpiece, he’s got a great eye for material and the range to make the most of it. Who else could play a neo-Nazi and Ken? His latest movie role is one of his best yet: teacher turned reluctant astronaut Ryland Grace in Lord and Miller sci-fi adventure epic Project Hail Mary. Here’s where it ranks on his filmography to date.

And we’re off. In most years, it takes a few months to assemble a list of the best movies of the year so far where the bar for quality isn’t lowered into the Earth’s core. The first quarter of the release calendar is typically where studios toss their tax writeoffs, but to this point, 2026 has outstripped expectations. In how many other years have we gotten a killer horror sequel like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a sharp, gross Sam Raimi return-to-form, a Gus Van Sant thriller and one of the best actor-to-director transitions in recent memory, all before April? And that’s to mention some of the smaller gems that have already popped up. As usual, this post will be updated throughout the year as highlights arrive – and there is bound to be a lot of them, between Project Hail Mary, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, all arriving in the first half of 2026 alone. As you’ll see below, though, we’re already off to a good start. May we say that movies are… so back? 📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

Updates for 2026: One of the best movies of 2025, Pillion mixes tender emotions and kinky sex into a BDSM romcom that’s funny, hot and heartbreaking all at once. In the past few decades, queer cinema has made major strides – not just in reaching mainstream audiences, but in redefining what ‘queer cinema’ actually looks like. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever allowed to be addressed on screen at all, the viewpoint was often limited to that of white, cisgender men. But the LGBTQ+ experience is not a monolith, and recent years have seen the scope of queer film expand to include the voices of the trans community and people of colour. That’s not to mention the kind of stories being told, from the dom-com of Pillion to the atmospheric horror of I Saw the TV Glow to the romantic ghost story All Of Us Strangers. Obviously, there are still many barriers left to breach, but the progress of the last half-century or so deserves to be celebrated. To that end, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time Out writers, to assist in assembling a list of the greatest gay films ever made.  Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Stephen A Russell, Tom Huddleston, Alim Kheraj, Guy Lodge, Ben Walters and Matthew Singer. RECOMMENDED: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time🎥 The 65 best documentaries of all-time😍 The 100 best romantic films of all-time🤣 The 100 best comedies of all-time

For a long time, Irish movies played predominantly to Irish audiences. Before the 2000s, it was for a movie from the Emerald Isle to reach a global audience. It still is. But whenever one does make it off the island, it’s going to hit you hard. Think of the quietly poignant romantic musical Once, or Daniel Day-Lewis’s breakthrough in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot, or Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated study of friendship in peril The Banshees of Inisherin. Whether the genre, the best Irish movies breathe with a soul reflective of the country’s centuries of history and the idiosyncrasies of its people. There’s no reason to wait until St Patrick’s Day to watch these classics – but if you need an excuse to crack into these 20 selections, we can’t think of a better one. Recommended: 🗼 The best films set in Paris💂‍♀️ The best London movies☘ The best Irish songs for St. Patrick’s Day

Cutting cable isn’t as cost-effective as it used to be. New streaming platforms seem to arrive with the wind while the old ones continually raise their rates, and by the time you’re done subscribing you may realise you have spent more money than you’ll ever have time to watch all the stuff you want – or you find out there’s not that much you want to even watch in the first place. But what if we told you there was an easily accessible website out there with a trove of legitimately awesome movies available to stream 24/7, and entirely for free? This obscure gem of a site is called… YouTube. That’s right: the site known primarily as the go-to repository for cat videos and instructions for fixing your toilet is hiding an impressive catalogue of classic public domain cinema of the sort many other streamers don’t bother with, from silent era milestones to essential deep-cuts.  If you don’t mind sitting through a bunch of commercials, YouTube has a full channel of ad-supported modern films as well. But if you’re looking to bone up on your movie history, check out the 30 flicks below, with links included. Recommended: 🎬 100 best movies of all time💣 The greatest thrillers ever made🤘 The best cult classic movies of all-time🌍 The best foreign films of all-time

Great movies were made to be debated. All right, maybe that’s not their primary function, but all art deserves to be argued over. If you’re passionate about something, you’re going to feel compelled to fiercely defend your favourites and shout down whatever you think is undeserving. Inflaming public discussion is one of the reasons we’ve put together this list of the greatest films ever made. It gets you thinking, and, when reasoned and civil enough, perhaps rethinking your own opinion.   It seems like a particularly good time to get the discussion going, too, given that movies are, slowly but surely, inching back toward the center of popular culture. Young people are going to cinemas again, particularly for repertory screenings, and making hits of original movies from fresh filmmakers like Ryan Coogler's Oscar-record-breaking Sinners. Letterboxd is growing in usage, and the Criterion closet is all over social media. New cinephiles are being made every day, and we’ve always thought of this list mostly as an educational tool for burgeoning film buffs. It covers a lot of ground: over 100 years, multiple countries, and just about every genre imaginable. So let’s get talking – and most importantly, watching.   Jump to list: 100-91 |  90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 | 60-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 How we chose our 100 best movies of all time Admittedly, the process is not an exact science. Mostly, it involves a bunch of arguing, whittling and deal-making amongst Time Out’s mo

Like the old gunslinger returning to town for one last shoot-out, western movies just never seem to stay dead. It’s a curiously resilient artform: a genre that is historically white, conventionally masculine and politically conservative probably should have been buried alongside John Wayne. And indeed, there have been times where the western has seemed like an ancient relic. Yet, it always seems to come back.  But that’s the thing: the western is far less beholden to tradition than it seems. Oscar-winners like Unforgiven and Dances with Wolves interrogated western morality, while standout modern examples such as Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff and Netflix’s all-Black The Harder They Fall have subverted them altogether. Even the film we’ve chosen as the best western of all time is largely a deconstruction of the genre itself.  Sure, the tropes are considered tropes for a reason. But even at its most classic, there are few forms as purely cinematic as a well-made western. Here are the 50 best ever made. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all time🤯 The best action movies of all time😬 The best thriller movies of all time🆓 The best free movies on YouTube

French actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) has a face filmmakers love. Creased and pockmarked, with a bulbous nose and prominent ears, it’s the sort of visage that’s compelling to watch do practically anything. It serves Swedish director John Skoog’s oddly mesmerising monochrome folk tale particularly well, considering it’s essentially 90 minutes of watching one man’s massive DIY home renovation project. Call it ‘This Old Fortress’. Inspired by true events, it’s a story of fruitless obsession ​that Werner Herzog must be kicking himself for not discovering first. At the peak of the Cold War, Karl-Göran Persson, a farmhand in rural Sweden, dedicated his twilight years to transforming his modest cottage into a communal fallout shelter, or ‘redoubt.’ (In Swedish: ‘värn.’) Harvesting scrap metal, wood and whatever other junk he could get his hands on, then blowing his pension on concrete, he successfully constructed a fortification for a war that never came. Persson’s single-minded devotion is reflected in the filmmaking. Spinning off from his own award-winning art installation, Skoog and his crew rebuilt the shelter from scratch, and much of the runtime is given to observing Lavant, as Persson, gather and lay the materials. He jerryrigs a system to haul a pair of weighty railroad ties on his bike. He nearly saws down his favourite shade tree all by himself. He walks home swaddled in old t​yres, begrudgingly donated by a nearby garage. In his brief moments of leisure, he jams on ​the

‘When you are on a sinking ship,’ George Orwell wrote in 1948, ‘your thoughts will be about sinking ships’. He was describing the way fascism occupies the thoughts of those under its thumb, muting all other concerns, whether personal, political or trivial. Members of the Way-Too-Online Generation can certainly relate. After all, we now all carry tiny anxiety machines around in our pockets, creating a sense of hyper-awareness to the world’s atrocities that allows precious little room for comforting distractions.  In his documentary-cum-video essay Orwell: 2+2=5, director Raoul Peck juxtaposes the British writer’s words with a flood of the same distressing images inundating our social media feeds, from Ukraine to Gaza, South America to the United States. The film’s anti-mathematical title refers to a concept explored in Orwell’s most famous book, the dystopian sci-fi milestone 1984, of how despotic regimes reshape objective truth to their whims. It could just as easily be called Doomscroll: The Movie. The point, of course, is that the ship has been sinking for a long time, and Orwell saw the iceberg coming from a century away. Born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, the author grew up in colonial India as part of what he called a ‘lower-upper-middle class’ family, spent a regrettable stretch participating in ‘the actual machinery of despotism’ as a member of the imperial police in Burma, then dedicated his career to not just critiquing totalitarianism but outlining its playbook. Drawin

How often does the best romantic comedy of the year also contain the year’s best fight scene? Probably as often as any romcom starts with a man standing over a dead stranger on the side of the highway, his penis unknowingly dangling from his shorts. Splitsville is full of surprises. Written by co-stars Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, and directed by Covino, the duo’s second feature is a screwball sex farce for an age when even the most buttoned-down couples are exploring ‘ethical non-monogamy’. Marvin is a cuddly schlub in the Jason Segel mold. Covino is his wealthier, hairier, more dickish best friend. Both are punching above their weight when it comes to their wives: the former is married to Andor’s Adria Arjona, the latter to Dakota Johnson. In a desperate bid to keep them from coming to their senses, both husbands propose opening their respective marriages — the ramifications of which neither is prepared to deal with. Of course, movies about normies awkwardly dabbling in polyamory go back at least as far as 1969’s Bob & Carole & Ted & Alice, and there are endless comedies involving dumb guys undone by their own insecurities. What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious.  What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious With 2019’s The Climb, another film about friends overstepping the boundaries of fidelity, Covino and Marvin placed themselves in the bromantic lineage of Judd Apatow, only with a greater penchant for slaps

Strange, ravishing and rhapsodic, there aren’t many movies like Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, unless you can think of another historical folk musical about a nearly-vanished religious movement that turns its followers’ convulsive expressions of devotion into Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers. A cradle-to-grave portrait of Ann Lee, the founder of the Christian sect known as the Shakers, the film is, at turns, completely stunning and utterly baffling. At its most successful, though, it doesn’t just depict ecclesiastical fervor – it sweeps you up in it. In that way, the movie is really a testament to the performance of Amanda Seyfried. As Lee, she fills her large, expressive eyes with a sense of unwavering belief — appropriate for a woman who came to see herself as the reincarnation of Christ himself.  The movie is a testament to the performance of Amanda Seyfried Informed by an impoverished childhood and staggering personal losses as an adult, the 18th century Mancunian preached a utopian vision of society based in broad egalitarianism and a strict adherence to celibacy. Naturally, that led to persecution at home from the ruling evangelical order, prompting her eventual escape, along with her latent-homosexual brother (Lewis Pullman), bewildered husband (Christopher Abbott) and small flock of disciples, to the alleged promised land of America. Illustrating her life in the tones of a Dutch oil painting, Fastvold treats Lee’s faith with sincerity and respect, and Se

Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the four must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.  Recommended: 🏆 The best movies of 2026 (so far)🗓️ The most anticipated movies of 2026🆕 What’s new on Netflix in March 2026📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far) 1. Sentimental Value (Hulu) A true actors showcase, Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated family drama features several of 2025’s best performances, including Stellan Skarsgård as an absentee filmmaker father, Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as his neglected daughters and Elle Fanning as the movie star he tries to mold into their surrogate. It deals with heavy stuff, but it’s not without humour: make sure you’re up on Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible so you can get one of the year’s funniest blink-and-miss-it gags. Read Time Out’s review. Watch Sentimental Value now on Hulu 2. Resurrection (Criterion Channel) Chinese director Bi Gan established himself as one of international arthouse cinema’s true visionaries with 2015’s Kaili Blues. His third feature is a psychedelic journey into a cinema-ravaged mind. In a future where humanity has gained immortality but

Norjalaisen Mona Fastvoldin The Testament of Ann Lee on kummallinen, lumoava ja rapsodinen elämys – tällaisia elokuvia ei juuri ole. Vai tuleeko mieleen toista historiallista kansanmusiikkimusikaalia lähes kadonneesta uskonnollisesta liikkeestä, joka muuttaa seuraajiensa kouristuksenomaiset hartaudenosoitukset suureellisiksi tanssinumeroiksi?  Shakers-nimellä (vapisijat) tunnetun kristillisen lahkon perustajan, Ann Leen, elämäkertakuvaus on vuoroin täysin häikäisevä ja tyystin hämmentävä. Parhaina hetkinään se ei ainoastaan kuvaa uskonnollista hurmosta – se tempaa katsojan siihen mukaan. Tässä mielessä elokuva on todistusvoimainen näyttö Amanda Seyfriedin roolisuorituksesta. Leen roolissa hän täyttää suuret, ilmeikkäät silmänsä järkähtämättömällä uskolla – mikä onkin sopivaa hahmolle, joka alkoi pitää itseään Kristuksen reinkarnaationa. Elokuva tempaa katsojan mukaan uskonnolliseen hurmokseen Köyhän lapsuuden ja aikuisiän musertavien menetysten värittämä 1700-luvun manchesterilainen saarnasi utooppista visiota yhteiskunnasta, joka perustuisi laajaan tasa-arvoon ja tiukkaan selibaattiin. Luonnollisesti se johti vainoon kotimaassa, ja lopulta Ann Lee pakeni luvattuun maahan Amerikkaan yhdessä piilevästi homoseksuaalin veljensä (Lewis Pullman), hämmentyneen aviomiehensä (Christopher Abbott) ja pienen opetuslapsilauman kanssa.  Fastvold kuvittaa Leen elämän hollantilaisen öljyvärimaalauksen sävyillä ja kohtelee tämän uskoa vilpittömyydellä ja kunnioituksella. Seyfried vastaa tähä

After an interminably long awards season that had us arguing over cats and ballet by the end of it, the 98th annual Academy Awards are finally, mercifully over. And, after one of the more unpredictable closing stretches of the race in recent years, we more or less ended up where most of us thought we would three months go, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another ruling the night. The political action thriller won six awards, including Best Picture, with Anderson winning his first Best Director statuette and the conspicuously absent Sean Penn collecting his third overall, this time for Best Supporting Actor. Casting director Cassandra Kulukundis also won the inaugural award for Best Casting. As for One Battle’s arch rival, Sinners, the Ryan Coogler-directed period vampire gangster blues musical blockbuster made history in a few different ways. After being nominated for a record-breaking 16 nominations, it ended up setting a record for most losses, winning four and losing 12. In perhaps the most surprising win of the night, at least given the longstanding predictions, star Michael B Jordan took home Best Actor, a victory that seemed like a longshot up until he prevailed at the Actor Awards two weeks. He is only the sixth Black actor to win the category. Coogler lost out on director but won Best Original Screenplay, becoming the third to win in either screenwriting category. (Anderson won Best Adapted Screenplay.) Ludwig Göransson won his third Oscar for Best Origin

March is all about returns on Netflix, whether it’s old shows dropping with new seasons, old names making new series, exiled gangsters stepping back into the game, superstar K-pop groups staging a comeback or dinosaurs coming back from extinction. What’s the highlight? It might depend on your age. For alphas and zoomers, the live concert from reinvigorated Korean boy band BTS is possibly the event of the whole year. Millennials? Probably the long-awaited Peaky Blinders movie. Boomers? A new season of Virgin River is here – not to mention an age-gap dating show pairing sexagenarians with twentysomethings. Here are the 10 must-watch movies, shows and live events of the month. What’s new on Netflix February 2026 at a glance: 📍Movies: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (March 20), War Machine (March 6)📍Shows: One Piece season 2 (March 10), Virgin River season 7 (March 12), Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (March 26) 📍Limited Series: The Dinosaurs (March 6)📍Documentaries: Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (March 11), The Plastic Detox (March 16)  📍Live events: BTS: The Comeback Live (March 21) Recommended: 🇳 The best movies on Netflix💻 The best Netflix original series to binge📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 The Dinosaurs  Steven Spielberg and dinosaurs go back like Jeff Goldblum and sexily unbuttoned shirts. He executive produced this computer-animated four-episode docuseries imagining the absolute horror of living in the Mesozoic Era, with Morgan Freeman

Os amantes de livros têm um ano muito especial pela frente, tanto nas salas de cinema como nas plataformas de streaming. Entre os gigantes da literatura cujas obras vão ser adaptadas encontram-se Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus e Don Winslow. Mas o mais excitante de tudo é talvez o regresso do grande mestre da narrativa épica: Homero vai receber o toque de Christopher Nolan, em versão IMAX, com a adaptação de A Odisseia, com estreia prevista para o Verão. BookTokers, façam uma pausa no desafio de leitura de 2026 e vão ao cinema: este é o vosso momento. O Monte dos Vendavais A adaptação literária de Emerald Fennell promete lançar um verdadeiro cocktail Molotov sobre o debate cultural do início de 2026. A tórrida história de amor de Emily Brontë vai receber uma versão bem à maneira de Fennell, com músicas de Charli XCX, um elenco de fazer correr tinta (Margot Robbie e Jacob Elordi) e até aspas provocatórias no título do cartaz, como se fosse suposto dizê-lo com ironia. O Monte dos Vendavais pode ser um marco do romantismo literário, mas está longe de ser propriamente romântico, pelo que o slogan “a maior história de amor de todos os tempos” poderá deixar os puristas algo confusos.Estreia: 12 de Fevereiro Abaixo de Zero David Koepp adaptou Parque Jurássico, de Michael Crichton, mas aqui assume o papel de autor-realizador de uma história muito ao estilo do próprio Crichton. O romance, publicado em 2019 (e dois anos depois em Portugal), parte de uma premi

Book lovers have a year to savour in store for them at the movie theatre and on streaming. Among the literary giants having their work adapted are Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus and Don Winslow. Most excitingly, the big dog of epic storytelling, Homer, is getting the IMAX-enhanced Christopher Nolan treatment with this summer’s adaption of The Odyssey. BookTokers, this is your moment. Photograph: Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights Emerald Fennell’s literary adaptation is sure to lob a Molotov cocktail in the general direction of early 2026’s cultural discourse. Emily Brontë’s toxic love story is getting a proper Fennelling, with Charlie XCX songs, a buzz-worthy cast (Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi) and provocative quote marks around the title on the poster like you’re supposed to say it in a sarcastic way. Wuthering Heights may be a landmark Romantic novel but it’s not exactly small ’r’ romantic, so that ‘the greatest love story of all time’ tagline may mystify literary types. In cinemas worldwide Feb 13 Photograph: HarperCollins Cold Storage David Koepp adapted Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, but the writer-director has his own Crichton-esque monster tale in the shape of his 2019 novel. It delivers a Cold War-era sci-fi premise in a modern setting, with a military facility breach unleashing a parasitic fungus on employees at a self-storage facility. Liam Neeson, Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Sosie Bacon will be hoping to swerve the blob. The lat

Ya se siente la Navidad, sobre todo en las plataformas de streaming. Cada año, un buen puñado de películas festivas con sabor a roscón salen de la cadena de montaje directas a tu tele (y, de vez en cuando, a los cines). La mayoría son directamente malas, algunas son tan malas que resultan buenas y unas pocas son realmente buenas… o, al menos, lo bastante autoconscientes como para ofrecer una noche divertida reunidos alrededor del brillo de la pantalla. Más raras aún son las que se convierten en auténticos fenómenos virales. En 2024, la fruta escarchada se la llevó Un muñeco de nieve para derretirse, la comedia romántica invernal de Netflix sobre un muñeco de nieve buenorro que cobra vida. ¿Hay alguna película del catálogo de este año que pueda alcanzar ese status? Hemos revisado lo mejorcito de la cosecha navideña de 2025 y las hemos clasificado según sus posibilidades de ponerse tan de moda como "Frosty", el muñequito de nieve. Fotografía: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC En busca de Joy (Prime Video) Ideal para: Amantes de Tyler Perry ¿Tyler Perry presentando Misery como una comedia romántica? En la nueva película del incansable guionista-director-productor, Shannon Thornton interpreta a una diseñadora de moda neoyorquina insatisfecha con la trayectoria de su carrera que sigue a su crush hasta Colorado, solo para acabar derrapando en una carretera helada, donde es rescatada por un ermitaño sorprendentemente guapo, interpretado por Tosin Morohunfola. ¿Le ens

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, especially on streaming services. Every year, a stuffed stocking’s worth of peppermint-sweet holiday flicks roll off the assembly line and onto your television (and occasionally theaters). Most are straight-up bad, some are so-bad-they’re-good, and a select few are genuinely good – or at least, self-aware enough to make for a fun night gathered ‘round the glow of the TV set. Rarer still are those which become legit viral phenomenons. In 2024, that was Hot Frosty, Netflix’s winking winter romcom about a hunky snowman come to life. Are there any films from this year’s slate that might attain the same status? We’ve perused the cream of the 2025 yuletide crop, and ranked them by their chances to get as hot as Frosty.  Recommended: 🎅🏻The best Christmas movies of all-time🎄The best Christmas movies for kids to watch this year🎁The best Christmas specials of all-time Photograph: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC Tyler Perry's Finding Joy (Prime Video) Ideal for: Tyler Perry completists Tyler Perry presents Misery as a romcom? In the indefatigable writer-director-producer’s latest, Shannon Thornton is a New York fashion designer dissatisfied with her career trajectory who follows her crush to Colorado, only to wind up skidding off an icy road where she’s rescued by an improbably handsome hermit, played by Tosin Morohunfola. Will this rugged mountain man teach her to appreciate the things that truly matter in life? No spoilers!

Halloween ne tombe qu’un jour par an, mais les plus fervents adeptes de la fête trouvent toujours le moyen d’en faire un mois entier. Et quoi de mieux pour ça que de se plonger dans des films ? Rien de plus simple, après tout : il existe tout un genre cinématographique consacré à l’art de faire hurler les spectateurs de peur. Mais contrairement à ce qu’on croit souvent, il y a une vraie différence entre les meilleurs films d’horreur et les meilleurs films d’Halloween. Un film comme Ne vous retournez pas (Don’t Look Now) figure peut-être parmi les œuvres les plus bouleversantes du genre, mais il est sans doute un peu trop cérébral pour la « saison des frissons ». En revanche, les apocalypses zombies, histoires de fantômes, massacres à la tronçonneuse et mélanges de monstres ? Là, on est pile dans le thème. Alors, pour vous aider à composer votre programme d’octobre, on a concocté cette liste de films d’Halloween à voir le 31 au soir. Suspiria (1977) Sur le papier, le conte macabre de Dario Argento ne paie pas de mine : une danseuse américaine timide intègre une mystérieuse académie de ballet en Europe, où d’étranges phénomènes ne tardent pas à se manifester. Mais ce point de départ simple permet au maître du giallo de s’en donner à cœur joie : couleurs hallucinées, mises à mort stylisées, et bande-son cauchemardesque signée par les rockeurs progressifs italiens Goblin. Un cauchemar baroque qui hante encore les nuits des cinéphiles. Shining (1980) Si vous ne revoyez pas Shini

Somehow haven’t gotten enough of KPop Demon Hunters? Correction: have your kids still not gotten enough?  Well, if you missed catching the animated musical sensation in theaters during its limited run in August, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back to cinemas, just in time for Halloween. Starting October 31, the movie will screen in select theaters in several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. And yes, singing along is once again encouraged – and given the time period, so are costumes. Initially released on Netflix back in June, the film, focusing on a mega-popular girl group who are also charged with protecting humanity from soul-sucking, shapeshifting beasties, came out of nowhere to become an almost instant phenomenon. It’s now officially the most popular movie in the history of the platform, topping 325,100,000 views. Four songs from the soundtrack, including the inescapable chart-topper ‘Golden’, occupied the Billboard Top 10 simultaneously, while the vocal trio of EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI recently made their live debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tickets for the upcoming screenings go on sale October 17 at 6 am. Find a screening nearest you here. Best to act fast: the movie will only be in theaters for three days, ending November 2. Then you’ll have to go back to singing alone in your home on an endless loop. The best family movies of 2025 (so far) The best Halloween movies for kids on Netflix

If you’re like most Taylor Swift fans, you simply cannot get enough content from your queen. Good thing, then, that she seemingly never stops cranking it out. Not only did she just release her sixth album in seven years, the record-breaking The Lift of a Showgirl – available in 27 different physical variations – it coincided with both a box-office-topping cinematic event, a two-part Channel 4 documentary and the announcement of her engagement to football player Travis Kelce, whose eventual wedding will almost certainly produce a tidal wave of content on its own. Now, the pop megastar has two more film projects guaranteed to capture untold millions of eyeballs. Not even a year after her world-dominating Eras Tour finally ended, a six-part docuseries chronicling the production of her globe-spanning, generation-defining, economy-shifting concert tour is coming to Disney+. According to a press release, The End of an Era ‘gives an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world’ and features cameos from contemporaries such as Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. (What, no Charli XCX?) The doc premieres December 12 – the day before Swift’s 36th birthday – with two episodes dropping each week. The same day, Disney+ will also debut The Eras Tour: The Final Show, a full concert film indeed shot at the final stop of the 149-date tour, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8, 2024. You might

Eh bien, il n’aura pas fallu 28 ans, ni même 28 semaines : l’un des meilleurs films d’horreur de l’année débarque déjà sur une plateforme de streaming. 28 Ans plus tard, le retour du réalisateur Danny Boyle et du scénariste Alex Garland dans un monde ravagé par le tristement célèbre virus de la Rage, arrive sur Netflix en France ce samedi 20 septembre. Techniquement, c’est le troisième volet de la saga entamée en 2002 avec 28 Days Later, suivi en 2007 par 28 Weeks Later du réalisateur espagnol Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Mais ce nouvel épisode prend quelques libertés, allant jusqu’à effacer une partie des événements du précédent film. Situé près de trois décennies après l’apparition du virus – qui transforme les infectés en machines à tuer convulsives et ultra-rapides – le film dépeint des îles Britanniques mises en quarantaine du reste du monde, revenues à une forme de stabilité, certes primitive mais fonctionnelle. L’intrigue suit une famille en particulier : Aaron Taylor-Johnson incarne le patriarche, le jeune Alfie Williams son fils, et Jodie Comer la mère de ce dernier, rongée par une mystérieuse maladie. Ce qui commence comme une aventure initiatique de survie bascule, dans sa seconde moitié, en une méditation profondément émouvante sur l’acceptation de la mort comme partie intégrante de la vie. Porté par une bande-annonce déjà culte, 28 Ans plus tard est sorti en salles en juin et a cartonné au box-office, engrangeant 151 244 007 dollars dans le monde. Côté criti